For decades, TV has been regarded as an inferior storytelling medium to film. But the last 10 years have seen the barriers between film and television come crashing down, thanks to game-changing TV dramas including Mad Men, House of Cards, Breaking Bad, Homeland, Game of Thrones, Serangoon Road and True Detective. Companies that used to specialise in film have opened up TV divisions; actors who were only ever seen on the big screen have become living room favourites; writers and … [Read more...] about TV and Film at the Crossroads
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Factual Encounter
From blue-chip specials to long-running series, programming about nature and animals remains popular with viewers and broadcasters. The makers of wildlife documentaries always face challenges – mainly how to come up with new stories and new ways to tell old stories. Sometimes that means years of camping in the bush in faraway land or sending cameras in the deepest parts of the oceans; sometimes it means looking right under their noses. This year, at Asian Side of the Doc 2016 in … [Read more...] about Factual Encounter
Genre Updates: Pre-school and children channel
Cartoon Network Parent brand: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company Sub or sibling brands: Boomerang, POGO and Toonami Ownership in Asia: Turner Asia-Pacific Senior executive for Asia: Ricky Ow, President, Turner Asia-Pacific Mark Eyers, Chief Content Officer, Kids Networks Phil Nelson, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Southeast Asia-Pacifi c and North Asia (ad sales and distribution) Siddharth Jain, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, … [Read more...] about Genre Updates: Pre-school and children channel
The war between OTT and Pay-TV
The video industry continues to see a shift in a number of time consumers watch their traditional pay-TV service, as more content is being viewed on Over-The-Top (OTT) services such as Netflix, Hulu, and others. Pay-TV providers must focus not only on why consumers are gravitating to these OTT offerings but also on how these providers can slow and ultimately reverse the trend. The average Netflix subscriber watches content for 1 hour and 33 minutes per day, while the average pay-TV subscriber … [Read more...] about The war between OTT and Pay-TV
Virtues of Reality
Is Virtual Reality the future of broadcast television, why? Virtual Reality (VR) is the future of broadcast television. In the coming years we shall see VR content experiences via a set-top box, OTT, PC and Smartphones on a daily basis. VR is the next big computing platform. VR is emerging as one of the most rapidly adopted technologies worldwide. With this new technology reaching mainstream audiences, there will be industries undergoing significant transformations from travel and gaming to … [Read more...] about Virtues of Reality
FreeviewPlus makes an impact on all On Demand content in New Zealand
With the increase of pay- TV operators in New Zealand, Sky is not looking good with a 14% fall in share price after the loss of 45,000 core residential subscribers in early 2016. The end of 2015 saw 860,445 customers, but the company was already bracing themselves for a drop of 3.5% and the number to be 830,000 at the end of June 2016. The anticipated decline followed the roll-off of subscribers who signed on to watch the Rugby World Cup in 2015. Pay-TV policies Copyright There’s good … [Read more...] about FreeviewPlus makes an impact on all On Demand content in New Zealand